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Official Languages committee  No. The government has developed a guide that gives a number of examples.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  Yes, with pleasure. I think the Commissioner of Official Languages talked to you about it. The guide—

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  As I told you, there is a guide in the government. My team will be pleased to send it to all committee members. If the committee is interested in studying that issue, I would be happy to listen to your recommendations, because it is a concern for our government. As I told you, w

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  Fine, go ahead.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  Listen, we revived the long-form census…

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  … that the previous government had abolished.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  For us, it will be important to use the new data in 2021, because, with that data, we will be able to come with good—

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  I am sorry, I just want to finish my sentence.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  With good data from Statistics Canada, we can then have good programs and strengthen our official language minority communities. As I told you, in the regulations we revised, we included a new definition of official language minority communities.

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  Thank you for that question, my dear colleague. I also have to thank you for the leadership in official languages matters that you have shown throughout your entire career. I think also thank you for having helped to have Ottawa recognized as a bilingual city. My thanks go to e

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  All good news is welcome, I feel. I will be happy to have that conversation with you, with those involved in Ottawa, and with my parliamentary colleagues, because it is not every day that we amend the Official Languages Act. We have a golden opportunity here, a historic opportuni

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  For us, certainly, more direct support for communities was fundamental. As I was saying, we have heard their heartfelt pleas. The way to ensure the vitality of language communities involves providing services by, for and with those communities. That will create and keep jobs in t

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  Thank you very much. As you said, when we held consultations on official languages in 22 cities across the country, we really heard the heartfelt pleas from community media, including community radio. We saw the extent to which hearing one's own particular voice on the radio hel

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly

Official Languages committee  One of the first announcements we made, in fact, was to bring back university education to the College militaire royal de Saint-Jean. University education was provided in Kingston, mostly in English, but it was not provided in French at the military college in Saint-Jean-sur-Rich

November 1st, 2018Committee meeting

Mélanie Joly